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Recent Researches in Environment, Energy Systems and Sustainability Ternate-Tidore Spice Islands: A Territory Branding Process ZULAIKHA BUDI ASTUTI1, RUI A. R. RAMOS2 Department of Civil Engineering University of Minho – Engineering School Campus de Gualtar – 4710-057 Braga, PORTUGAL (1) [email protected], (2) [email protected], www.civil.uminho.pt/c-tac/ Abstract: - Territory branding strategies have recently been adopted to intensify urban competition for resources, markets, opportunities and attention. This paper examines the new strategy for territory management through branding for a low GDP territory but with remarkable natural resources. Applying the “critical city” approach, analysis through diagnosis will be started by SWOT tools to define vision and mission. Then priority and drivers are formulated to be achieved in the future. Branding, placement and benchmarking are considered as the marketing process which will be followed by strategy implementation in some projects as actions. From the results, the strong territory branding based on its identity can be formulated. Key-Words: - territory branding, critical city, SWOT analysis, North Maluku, Indonesia. 1 Introduction with corporate branding as an effort to grapple with Branding the territory is a new trend in urban the development of an understanding of cities and strategy, mostly applied to stimulate economic their brands [1]. Mainly created to stimulate growth. There are several ways to perform a economic growth, according to CEOs for cities [2, branding process. One of them is the critical city 3], a strong brand can shift the perception of a place approach proposed by “innovpoint”, a Portuguese that may be suffering from a poor image among consulting company. In this process, several external and internal constituents, create a common approaches are analyzed to produce strong strategic vision for the future of the community and its plans. Afterwards, precise projects and actions will potential, provide a consistent representation of the be recommended for its accomplishment. The place, enhance its local, regional and global branding process components allow the territory to awareness and position, and shed unfavorable build a monitoring and evaluation system. stereotypes associated with a place, making it more “Spice Islands” is a phrase that is associated with appealing. spices producer territories. One of them is North Dinnie (2004), mentioned in Hanna and Rowley Maluku Islands, Indonesia. Almost 57% of its [4], has already postulated that territory branding economic backbone is from agriculture, especially has the ability to transcend and confine a single in spices. However, unclear territory policy brought industry to achieve a more cohesive image. North Maluku into static economic growth by Empirical studies of Zerillo and Thomas [5], One running out of natural resources. Spices are the Territory One Product (OTOP) in Thailand and everlasting most valuable commodity in the world palm oil businesses in the Philippines are some of markedly by its high price, supposedly to help the territory branding success stories which looked people’s welfare; however, that is not the case. In for an opportunity to brand their unique capability to order to help this territory to have a new planning add value. In the end, these examples show that the point of view, this paper will address and analyze programs have become the current government for North Maluku potentialities for its territory branding promoting entrepreneurship and creating jobs. process. The process of creating a place brand has been formulated in the Core Cities Conference in 2007 as 2 Theoretical Framework to identify visual, verbal, experiential elements of places to communicate (“what are the main things Nowadays, every place has to compete with other that you want people to know about your place?”), places for its share of the world’s consumers, and develop messages and consider how to put it tourism, business, investment, capital, respect, and across to different audiences – internal and external, attention. One of the strategies consists of city, and forge associations between place and (potential) place, and tourism branding. Answorth and consumers [6]. A brand is not just a name; logo, Kavaratzis linked this territory branding process website or brochure, a brand is something that exists ISBN: 978-1-61804-088-6 243 Recent Researches in Environment, Energy Systems and Sustainability in the collective mind of the consumer [6]. A brand and agro industry manufacturing, 13%. Even though image for a city will create or change awareness and 50% of all capital goes to agriculture, ±12% of the create or build consumer demand for a product in an inhabitants live in poverty and GDRP at Current increasingly competitive market place. Marketing Market Prices is very low: IDR 4,687 million territory does not mean producing leaflets and (2009) which put this territory in the bottom three creating websites, but it should represent an urban rank position among Indonesian provinces [9]. management philosophy being used for the fulfillment of its inherent potential [7]. The critical city approach and its core and drivers methodology from “innovation point” is one of the guidelines for a branding process (Figure 1). This methodology combines the analysis of what the territory has to offer and the drivers which want to be achieved with marketing, to map what happens outside the territory. This stage serves to answer the question what is the territory or city like from a strategic point of view and to define which direction the territory/city wants to take. After that, in order to achieve a successful future, the strategy plan should Fig. 2: North Maluku, Indonesia Archipelago be arranged, followed by projects and consistently the definition of action. This framework can also be Well known as the Spice Islands, the productivity of used as a monitoring tool, in every step in branding, clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon was established a projects, and action [8]. record value of productivity in 2009, respectively, 5,515ton/20,132ha, 4,412ton/32,287ha, and 121ton/371ha [9, 10]. Other state crops are coconut, coffee, and cacao with productivities of 220,623ton/224,502ha, 404ton/3,517ha, and 12,231ton/34,870ha, respectively [9, 10]. The highest crop number is coconut (two central producers: North Halmahera and Sula Isle), followed by cacao, clove and nutmeg as spices (Figure 3). Fig. 1: Critical City: core and drivers methodology 3 Why North Maluku? - Diagnosis North Maluku is one of Indonesia’s Provinces, located in 3o9’ South Latitude - 2o10’North Latitude and 123o - 129o East Latitude (Figure 2). With area 145,801km2, is divided into 7 regencies and 2 municipalities (West Halmahera, Central Halmahera, North Halmahera, South Halmahera, Sula Isle, East Halmahera, Morotai, Ternate City Fig. 3: Production Area of coconut, clove and and Tidore City). In 2009, 979,990 inhabitants lived nutmeg (resumed by the authors) [10] there. Most of them work in agriculture sectors For many years, farmers have done the traditional (58% of working age populations: 231,296 persons). harvesting process. Unfortunately, the products are The economic backbone is mainly agriculture, 37%, ISBN: 978-1-61804-088-6 244 Recent Researches in Environment, Energy Systems and Sustainability under standards of Indonesia National Standard such Supported by existing infrastructures, in 2009, as: water content of nutmeg seed: 10-12%, clove: North Maluku approved several investments in 14%, and copra: 6%. Those products become so agriculture, mining, industry and manufacture. fragile when competing with other products from Some of these include: one project in estate crops Africa. For instance, when the world’s cacao price will absorb 500 employees, one project in mining was US$2.500/ton, Indonesia’s cacao price was only will absorb 115 employees, and four projects in US$2.300/ton, while Africa’s cacao price was industry and manufacture will absorb 831 US$2.700/ton [11, 12]. Farmers should be instigated employees. By the end of 2009, only agriculture and to do better after harvesting process to gain more mining projects had been implemented. In 2008, the added values. An example from an agriculture recorded number of Food Companies in North process with added value is coconut (US$292/MT): Maluku was 75 (mostly in North Halmahera & copra (US$1,117/MT), coconut fiber (US$310/MT), Ternate). Those investments give an illustration that coconut shell charcoal (US$345/MT), desiccated North Maluku is an interesting area to invest with coconut (US$2,700/MT) [13]. The low quality of agriculture as the basic sector [10]. raw material promotes more added values for the North Maluku is supported by two universities second hand of traders than for the farmers [14, 15]. and a plantation park research office (Figure 4). The long chain of trading caused North Maluku Those offices have the potentiality to improve spices to lose their value at the production level. If human resources capacity, including farmers to the farmers can produce high quality products promote strong entrepreneurship, organization and through strong marketing, the margin obtained by to produce high quality products for the agriculture North Maluku farmers and local entrepreneurs can industry. This office provides high quality seeds, be applied to increase their quality of life. applicative technology for farmers, workshops for Infrastructures are the main item for distribution knowledge transfer, empowering farmer and networking, connecting the productive area to organizations. the market places, and it has not been equally distributed. However, this province has two cities that have already been built up with complete infrastructures, such as seaport, airport, and road. Ternate and Tobelo are the gates to connect North Maluku to other places, for instance, Tobelo Seaport (regional class IV, 4 ports, length: 50-60m) is the gate to send and receive goods and people from other countries (Philippines, Japan) or other cities in Indonesia. Halmahera, as the biggest island, has already been connected with hot mix road [10].
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